CPD Required Units for Litigation Lawyers
Issues covered include: Proportionate liability, ethics of proofing clients, avoiding complaints, responding to investigations
Description
A stellar line-up of Adelaide’s finest litigators, plus the Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner, provide you with their best tips and tricks to enhance your litigation practice. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain your CPD required units with in-depth and practical sessions tailor made for litigators.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management or Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
Chair: Wendy Jones, Partner, Fisher Jeffries Barristers & Solicitors
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Proportionate Liability: Pleading Issues & Evidentiary Barriers and Techniques
- Summary of proportionate liability principles under the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence and Apportionment of Liability) Act, the Competition and Consumer Act and the Corporations Act
- Identifying a potential proportionate liability defence
- Adequately pleading a proportionate liability defence
- Obstacles to the existence or success of a proportionate liability defence
- Evidentiary barriers and evidence gathering techniques in relation to proportionate liability defences
- Potential joinder of wrongdoers by a plaintiff or a defendant: To join or not to join?
- Traditional contribution proceedings as between defendants as an alternative to proportionate liability
Presented by Christian Munt, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers; Recommended Junior Counsel for Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Construction and Insolvency, Doyle’s Guide
Practical Legal Ethics
3.00pm to 4.00pm: The Ethics of Proofing Clients & Witnesses
- When a client’s instructions poses an ethical dilemma
- Problems with clients or witnesses who might raise mental health issues
- Ethics in proofing your client to give evidence
- Dealing with witnesses
- Case studies of particular ethical dilemmas for legal practitioners
Presented by Claire O’Connor SC, Villeneuve Smith Chambers; Recommended Senior Counsel for Family Law, Doyle’s Guide 2019
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management or Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Avoiding Complaints and Responding to Investigations
- What commonly causes complaints?
- What should you do to avoid complaints?
- Overcharging issues
- How should you deal with an investigation?
- Recent changes to the Legal Practitioners Act
Presented by Greg May, Legal Profession Conduct Commissioner
Venue
Stamford Plaza Adelaide Hotel
Level 2, 150 North Terrace
Adelaide 5000
SA
Australia